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Newington (Including Berrick Prior, Britwell Prior, Brookhampton, Holcombe)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… demesne farmstead, 2 while to the east a short-lived castle may have been erected during the Civil Wars of the 1150s. William of the Castle (de Castello) was mentioned c.1200, 3 and by the early 18th century the chapel was sometimes called 'Castle church', and the hillock on which it stood 'Castle …
Old and New London
… Plautus. Etymology of Newington ButtsThe "Elephant and Castle"Joanna SouthcottSingular Discovery of Human RemainsThe … the parish, running southward from the "Elephant and Castle," is called Newington Butts, which, writes Northouck, … or Buts, who owned an estate here. The "Elephant and Castle" public-house, now a mere central starting-point for …
The Environs of London
… and is worth about 300l. per annum; and the Elephant and Castle, and King and Queen inns, both of which were purchased …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ward, N. division, and partly in the W. division of Castle ward, S. division, of the county of Northumberland; … 1138, a colony of Cistercian monks having come to Morpeth Castle from Fountains, in Yorkshire, at the invitation of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… formed part of a royal estate, including also St. Briavels castle and manor and the profits of the Forest, that was … the duke of Bedford held it as part of his St. Bnavels castle estate. 96 The Crown appointed keepers of the park … and it then passed once more with the St. Briavels castle estate. After 1688, however, the duke's declining …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the river no longer fordable. Here was anciently a castle, which in the time of our Norman kings constituted one … had the privilege of a market and fairs; it contained a castle and an ancient market-cross, and at the northern … Earl of Gloucester, natural son of Henry I., erected a castle for the defence of his possessions, denominated …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… recorded in 1247 83 may have been the chapel in the castle 84 or a chantry-chapel. In 1457 St. Mary's chantry had …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… any urban characteristics had developed by then. Newnham castle, however, had presumably been built. Allegedly the first castle built beyond the Severn against the Welsh, 44 it was apparently not the 'old castle of Dean' 45 which is more plausibly identified with …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… no evidence that there was any manorhouse, other than the castle, in the town; the large early-19th-century house on … of 10 cottagers for a rent of 5 s. payable at St. Briavels Castle and by serjeanty of being a knight forester in the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… North Crawley; Emberton; Gayhurst; Hanslope with Castle Thrope Gayhurst; Hanslope with Caste Thrope; Hardmead; … Astwood, Bletchley, Fenny Stratford, Cold Brayfield, Castle Thorpe, Newton Blossomville, Stony Stratford, … on the Green. In Bonestou Hundred were Cold Brayfield, Castle Thorpe, Gayhurst, Hanslope, Haversham, Lathbury, …